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The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to
articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about
communism in Poland while offering new analyses of the concept, and
also examining the manifestations of anticommunism. Approaching
communist ideas and practices, programs and their implementations,
as an inseparable whole, they examine the issues of emancipation,
upward social mobility, and changes in the cultural canon. The
authors refuse to treat communism in Poland in simplistic
categories of totalitarianism, absolute evil and Soviet
colonization, and similarly refuse to equate communism and fascism.
Nor do they adopt the neoliberal view of communism as a project
doomed to failure. While wholly exempt from nostalgia, these essays
show that beyond oppression and bad governance, communism was also
a regime in which people pursued a variety of goals and sincerely
attempted to build a better world for themselves. The book is
interdisciplinary and applies the tools of social history,
intellectual history, political philosophy, anthropology,
literature, cultural studies, and gender studies to provide a
nuanced view of the communist regimes in east-central Europe.
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